Eldorado’s back

Eldorado is back up–if your mail is hosted here, you can get to it once again. I don’t think any was lost during the outage, except possibly some spam.

Eldorado is now running as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion on my iMac. This has necessitated some slightly contorted network re-jiggering, so it’s entirely possible that some things won’t be working quite right. Please let me know if you run into any.

This is a temporary measure until I can get everything migrated onto a new box running Red Hat. I’m done with OpenBSD. I’ll work on a write-up of moving your mail to gmail, while I’m at it.

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Hah, I did the same thing… I think about 3 years ago my FreeBSD box deadspot.com that hosts mail, etc., for a bunch of friends was on the fritz and I ended up importing it into VMWare Server on my other box, running Linux.

Initially it was supposed to be temporary but I was immediately blown away by how much faster it was, even virtualized, on the newer hardware.

It’s been running inside VMWare continually now for over two years, so much for being temporary I guess. :-) I’m still shocked at the stability of the setup but it’s running like a champ. I have a Windows VM on the same Linux server running Microsoft Exchange (all to make my blackberry work… dont laugh) which is equally as stable.

I guess it was kind of an odd precursor for the job I have now, several years later, where I deal nearly exclusively with thousands of Xen virtual servers for a living.